The Chancellor of the Exchequer announces the anonymous gift to the State for the benefit of the National Exchequer of £15,000 Registered Four per Cent. National War Bonds, 1927, together with £100 Five per Cent. War Stock and accrued interest and £5 Four and a-Half per Cent. War Stock and accrued interest.
The stock} is being transferred to the National Debt Commissioners for cancellation.
The amendment to make the age 99 was negatived.
Bearing on this subject, Mrs. Clifford Mills wrote to the "Times" as follows In the name of justice and a well-deserved admiration for their splendid service in the late war men are about to grant to, women the franchise on the same grounds as themselves, But this equality of citizenship, the long desired goal of women's political hopes, comes at a time which finds them vastly outnumbering men, and the quest: on is being asked if, considering their enormous majority, there is danger in this proposed extension of the franchise.
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